Brandi Carlile In These Silent Days LP (Vinyl)

Brandi Carlile's follow-up to her 2018 Grammy-winning album, By The Way, I Forgive You, was recorded at RCA Studio A in Nashville with producers Dave Cobb and Shooter Jennings. The new album's lead single, "Right On Time", features a music video directed by Courteney Cox.

In an interview with Variety, Carlile said of the record: "...many things exist within (the album): big, operatic moments, drama, glamorousness - but also crackly voiced, rustic stuff, too. It can get into Seattle grunge territory, and go into Roy Orbison and Freddie [Mercury], and it just feels like a culmination of a lot of the things that make me who I am."

Carlile's previous album, By The Way, I Forgive You, earned her six Grammy nominations and won for Best Americana Album, Best American Roots Song ("The Joke") and Best American Roots Performance ("The Joke").

In These Silent Days has plenty of intimate moments - it starts quietly, unfolding with just Carlile's voice and piano, the same elements that close the album - but they're punctuated by brisk melodies, steady-rolling rhythms and dramatic crescendos that capture the full roar of Carlile and the Hanseroths. That power is evident during the spells where they restrain themselves, adding texture and color to Carlile's hushed passion. What separates In These Silent Days from the rest of Carlile's albums is its controlled urgency and tight sense of craft, an aesthetic evident in how the album is as lean and robust as a well-loved record from the '70s. Often, In These Silent Days conjures a specific spirit, as if Elton John cut a collection of Laurel Canyon folk-rock in 1973 without abandoning his yearning to rock....[A]s the album alternates between candid whispers and raw catharsis, it is unmistakably the work of Brandi Carlile, who once again proves she's one of the best singer/songwriters of her generation.